MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

man(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities man(1)
NAME
man — print sections of the online reference manual
SYNOPSIS
man [–wx][–M path][section] entry ...
man [–kwx][–M path] keyword ...
DESCRIPTION
The man command either prints portions of the online manual to the standard output or
searches for manual entries having the specified keywords associated with them.
man recognizes the following options:
–k searches a precomputed database of synopsis lines for information on keywords.
–M path
searches the directories indicated by path for manual entries. If –M is not specified,
man uses the path specified in the
MANPATH environment variable if set; otherwise
man searches /usr/man. All manual entries are found by searching similarly struc-
tured file trees rooted at one or more places. See the FILES section for a description
of what files and directories man should find in each directory that it searches.
–w only displays the file name of the file containing the manual entry.
–x displays what files man is searching to find the manual entry.
section is a number (0-9) representing a section of the manual. man will search within the
specified section for entry.
Normally, man displays each specified entry of the manual. You can instruct man to only
search a given section of the manual by specifying the section number on the command line.
The online reference manual for
MPE/iX Shell and Utilities contains five basic sections:
1. Commands
2. System Interface Calls
3. C Runtime Library
4. File Formats
5. Miscellaneous Information
1-362 Commands and Utilities